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  Date / Time: 3/16/2009 6:03 PM UTC

  Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo Wednesday 3/18/2009 9:00 PM, USA MT
  

  Wednesday 3/18/2009 9:00 PM, USA MT Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo "has had an amazing life thus far. He is truly a Renaissance man in the fullest sense of the term: Architectural designer, painter, sculptor, writer, novelist, intellectual, inventor, healer, and as a young man, athlete.
  
  Professor Bagnolo was offered an opportunity to skip three grades in grammar school at age 8. However, his parents in their Italo-American wisdom allowed him only a one-grade skip. Otherwise he would have graduated primary school at age 10, high school at age 14, and college at age 18. Certainly a wonderful start for a wunderkind, but not for a boy or man socially.
  
  Later, he was a recipient of an Art Institute scholarship at age 11, but because of a serious bout with polio a few years before, and a relapse of muscular atrophication, his parents refused to allow him to attend classes. Despite his polio, he became a baseball player talented enough to gain try-outs and contract offers from several major league ball clubs at age 16-18. At that time, one had to be 21 years of age for a contract to be valid and his parents refused the bonus offers, preferring him to go to college instead.
  
  He became a Ford Foundation Fellowship Recipient in college, and was the first of only 12 out of 1200 accepted into a special program as a result. He later won a full tuition Talent-merit/gifted based scholarship for his figure paintings in his senior year, the first such award granted in 25 years at his university. The University credited him with a triple bachelor's degree in Painting and Drawing, Architectural/Exhibition Design and Advertising - the last they ever granted, and a minor in Cultural Anthropology (which actually qualifies as a Major). Uncertain of how to present his much faceted degree, they titled it formally: Environmental Design.
  
  Lothar Wittebourg, Director of the Field Museum Department of Exhibition Design, mentored him through the exhibition/architectural segment. His graduate architectural structural model, plans, and thesis, with Witteborg's mentoring and input. He was also responsible for a great many large scale stained glass projects, sometimes in collaboration with others, sometimes designing the color scale presentation art, sometimes doing the full-size and working drawings for the windows, sometimes choosing the many colored glass pieces for the entire window and at other times doing all of those things, depending upon his availability.

  Early in his career, he drew 110 larger than life-sized realistic charcoal figure drawings complete with buildings, back/foreground and landscaping for a mural in less than 10 days." Continued

  Websites are at, Saatchi Gallery Website London at: http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist_profile//14586.html
  LOS ANGELES SOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS SILA
  
  http://www.si-la.org/artists/pbagnolo-home.html
  Regular website is:  http://www.bagnoloart.com/
  RELIGIOUS ART SITE http://www.bagnoloart.com/sacredart/
  GALLERY VIEW ART http://www.BagnoloArt.com/oil_paintings/index.html

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